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Archive for August, 2011

When Will Halpin transfers from his all-deaf school into a mainstream Pennsylvania high school, he faces discrimination and bullying, but still manages to solve a mystery surrounding the death of a popular football player in his class.

In a contemporary story based on Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, Horatio Wilkes seeks to solve the murder of his friend Hamilton Prince’s father in Denmark, Tennessee. Something is rotten in Denmark, Tennessee, and it is not just the polluted Copenhagen River. Hamilton Prince’s father has been murdered, according to a hidden video message. Horatio Wilkes, Hamilton’s best friend, is visiting the Prince mansion when the video turns up. The guys need to find the killer before he strikes again.

When Penny’s mom decides to move to a small town in the middle of nowhere to open up a cupcake bakery, who knows what will happen? Follow Penny and her mom in this interesting path they take and how it turns out.

I love this book, because it made me laugh. It was also a love story and a spy book. This book kept me turning pages and I want to read the sequel! I would totally recommend this novel to any reader who wants a funny love story, and a fast read. Plus, it’s full of adventure. I loved the book, I’d Tell You I Love You, but Then I’d Have to Kill You.

The Sea of Monsters was a very interesting sequel to The Lightning Thief. It contained lots of action and adventure. I felt that I got to know each character better than in the first book. I enjoyed this book very much because there were surprises in almost every chapter, so I could not stop reading it.

When Jane loses her arm in a shark attack all she can think is “why me?”. It takes a lot of courage to go to school everyday because of her arm. One time she even wished she had died after the attack. All in all, after everything Jane finally accepts the truth and makes herself stronger.

Nola goes to work at a resort to get away from her normal life and find her true self. On the bus she meets Carly who somehow ends up working with Nola…They become BFFs until Nola finds out how Carly came to work with her.

I loved this book. I love anything written by this author. There are so many twists and turns. You never knew what was coming next. I couldn’t put the pieces together, so it made me want to keep reading. I couldn’t put this book down.

Mia is a senior now and for her project she wrote a book that got published. But there is one problem, the boy she had loved before, but broke up with, returns from Japan as a multi-millionaire. Can she choose between the sweet boy she was going to the prom with or the boy that suddenly came back into her life?

In a world where women die at the age of 20 and men at 25, Rhine Ellert is kidnapped to be sold into a marriage with two other girls who will become her sister wives. It’s a book that is hard to put down as Rhine struggles to escape so she can enjoy the last few years she has left, while not arising suspicion from her dangerous father-in-law.

Do you ever remember reading Imogene’s Antlers as a child? It’s about a girl who wakes up with an enormous pair of antlers on her head one morning? Well David Small the author and illustrator of that book, woke up one morning when he was fourteen and found that instead of antlers on his head – he couldn’t speak. Turns out that his parents had decided not to tell him he had cancer and could die, which is why he had to have surgery to remove one of his vocal cords.

In his graphic novel memoir, Stitches, David Small reflects on his childhood and how his parents’ unhappiness in their own lives was transferred on to his own, from how they approached his cancer – with his dad, who was a doctor, trying his very own treatments of radiation for David’s cancer, to his mother’s anger which was often released in rages at David. What’s a boy to do in a family like this? David Small shows how he survived his family, overcame all the craziness life brought him, and how a little artistic expression can work wonders.